Juli Clover
Juli is the Managing Editor at MacRumors, and has been covering Apple news and rumors since 2010. She oversees MacRumors' guides, roundups, how tos, reviews, and giveaways in addition to covering daily news. Her work is regularly highlighted on Techmeme and cited by tech publications and news sites.
She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.
She is a voracious reader, cinephile, gardener, and gamer, and she resides in California with her carnivorous plants. Juli can be reached at juli@macrumors.com or on Twitter.
Juli Clover's Articles
All the New AirPods Features Coming in iOS 26
Apple's upcoming iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe updates add several new features for the AirPods, which will be available through an AirPods firmware update.
Studio Quality Recording
The AirPods 4 and the AirPods Pro 2 can be used to record studio-quality audio for interviews, podcasts, songs, videos, and more. Apple says that the feature can be used to record high-quality vocals while...
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iOS 26 Gets New 'Adaptive Power' Option to Extend Battery Life
With iOS 26, Apple added a new feature called Adaptive Power that joins Low Power Mode as a power management option.
Available in the iPhone's battery settings, Adaptive Power is designed to make small performance adjustments that will improve battery life.
Apple says that some of these options include lowering display brightness or allowing some activities to "take a little longer." The ...
iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe Include Phone App With Call Screening, Hold Assist and More
With iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, Apple is expanding the Phone app to the Mac and the iPad for the first time. It might not make a lot of sense for these platforms to have a Phone app, but you can actually make phone calls from your iPad and Mac using Apple's Wi-Fi calling features.
The Phone app on iPad and Mac features all of your incoming phone calls, voicemails, contacts, and FaceTime...
Apple Seeds First Developer Betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe and More
Apple today provided developers with the first betas of the new iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 betas for testing purposes.
Registered developers can download the new beta software through the Settings app on each device.
Apple's software updates include many of the new features that were shown off at today's keynote event, with Apple rolling out a...
WWDC 2025 Preview: Apple's iOS 26 Design Overhaul, macOS Tahoe, and Much More
The 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference is just a few days away, with the keynote event set to take place on Monday, June 9. Ahead of Apple's big software debut, we've rounded up all of the rumors that we've heard so far about iOS 26, macOS 26, and Apple's other updates.
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A Note on Naming
Apple is streamlining the way that it...
iOS 26 Getting Custom AI-Generated Message Backgrounds, Generative Shortcuts and 'Mixmoji'
The iOS 26 Messages app is set to gain support for customized backgrounds for conversations, and it appears that AI will be an option for generating different looks.
According to Nicolás Alvarez, iOS 26 code suggests that users will be able to generate backgrounds for the Messages app using text-based descriptions. The feature appears to use Image Playground, and there will be Image...
TikTok Getting Yet Another Ban Delay as Trump Fails to Reach Deal With China
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to extend the looming TikTok ban for yet another 75 days, reports The Wall Street Journal. It will mark the third extension since Trump took office in January.
The second extension that Trump gave TikTok is set to expire on June 19, and there appears to be no progress made toward a deal with China, so TikTok needs a third reprieve to continue operating in...
MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPad Air and Rock Paper Pencil From Astropad
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Astropad to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an M3 iPad Air, an Apple Pencil Pro, and one of Astropad's Rock Paper Pencil kits to go along with it.
Rock Paper Pencil is a product that's meant to make writing on your iPad with the Apple Pencil feel like writing on a piece of paper rather than on a slippery display. Astropad just overhauled ...
WWDC 2025: What to Expect From tvOS 26
tvOS is probably the Apple operating system that gets the fewest updates each year, and that's not going to change in 2025. But thanks to the design overhaul that Apple is introducing across all of its software platforms, tvOS is set to get some interesting new features.
Naming
As we've noted several times this week, Apple is changing the naming for its operating system updates. After tvOS...
Apple Watch Control Center May Support Third-Party App Shortcuts in watchOS 26
Apple's upcoming watchOS 26 update could introduce support for third-party shortcuts in Control Center, according to a report from 9to5Mac. This would allow settings from third-party apps to be accessed right alongside Apple's own Control Center options.
Right now, the Control Center on Apple Watch (accessed by pressing the Side button) is limited to Apple's built-in shortcuts for doing...
Google's Chrome Browser Gets 'Highest Score Ever' on Speedometer Performance Test
Google today announced that its Chrome browser has received the "highest ever score" on the Speedometer 3 benchmarking test. Speedometer 3 is designed to measure browser performance, and it was created collaboratively by Google, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
The test is designed to measure web responsiveness through several workloads like HTML parsing, JavaScript and JSON processing, ...
WWDC 2025: All the Rumors About visionOS 26
We're just a handful of days away from the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, where Apple plans to introduce new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS. visionOS isn't Apple's most popular platform, but it's getting new features that will make the Vision Pro experience better.
The next version of visionOS has actually been described as "feature-packed," but a lot of...
PlayStation Adds Apple Pay Support for PS4 and PS5 Store Purchases
Apple Pay on the iPhone can be used for making PlayStation purchases on the PS4 and PS5, Sony confirmed today. The feature has been rolling out to PlayStation 5 users over the course of the last few weeks, but it is now available more widely and also on the PS4.
The option to use Apple Pay is notable because it is a feature that works when you're making PlayStation Store purchases directly...
Here's How Many iPhones Are Running iOS 18
iOS 18 adoption has outpaced iOS 17 adoption during the same timeframe last year, according to new iOS 18 adoption statistics that Apple shared today.
iOS 18 is now installed on 88 percent of iPhones introduced in the last four years (iPhone 13 and newer), and 82 percent of all active iPhones. iOS 18 adoption has grown notably since earlier this year. In January, 76 percent of iPhones...
Apple Watch Gets Snapchat App
Snap today announced the launch of a Snapchat app that's designed for the Apple Watch. Snapchat users can now view and respond to conversations right from their wrists.
The Snapchat app supports replies with the built-in Apple Watch keyboard, Scribble, and Dictation, plus it supports sending emoji, like any other Apple Watch messaging app.
Snap says that it is committed to making Snapchat ...
Apple Study: App Store Ecosystem Generated $1.3 Trillion Globally in 2024
Following a study looking into the success of the App Store ecosystem in the United States, Apple has sponsored a second study that covers the global App Store in 2024.
Apple's global App Store ecosystem supported an estimated $1.3 trillion in billings and sales across 2024, and for 90 percent of those sales, developers did not pay a commission to Apple.
"It's incredible to see so many...
WWDC 2025: New Features We Could See in watchOS 26
We're still counting down the days until the 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, and Apple's big event is creeping closer. We haven't heard too much about what we might see in watchOS 26, but there are a few hints based on rumors, info about other updates, and features that Apple often adds to on a yearly basis.
Naming
Rather than naming the next-generation version watchOS 12, Apple is...
Court Rejects Apple's Emergency Motion to Pause App Store Rule Changes
Apple will not be able to walk back the anti-steering App Store changes it was ordered to implement in May while the legal process plays out, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said today. That means Epic Games, Spotify, Patreon, and others will be able to continue to direct customers to web purchase options that are available outside of the App Store, and Apple won't be able to...
iOS 26 Could Bring Sleep Detection, Camera Controls, and New Gestures to AirPods
The iOS 26 and macOS 26 updates could bring several new features to the AirPods, including sleep detection features and camera control options, reports 9to5Mac. The AirPods features would be introduced through firmware updates that would accompany Apple's new software.
Here's what's rumored:
New head gestures - Apple could add new head gestures, such as a gesture for adjusting the...
iOS 18.6 Apple Intelligence Launch in China Delayed by U.S.-China Trade Tensions
Apple's efforts to bring Apple Intelligence to the critical Chinese market have been stymied by tension resulting from the tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump put in place, reports Financial Times.
To deploy Apple Intelligence features in China, Apple is working with Alibaba, and the two companies have not yet received regulatory approval in China for the AI products that Apple wants to ...
